In Reply To #20
I do and don't agree with you at the same time. As far as I'm concerned, I don't think that he truly had it extremely set in his mind, but also, on the other hand, he didn't give the official guillotine on Legends and the N64 games until the release of the timeline for the Portrait of Ruin game which came in the preorder special, therefore connecting it to his own creation. Not only, but it was evident through those actions that he himself had plans for a discontinuation of the Belmont's wielding of the Vampire Killer.
Or so I think. ^^' Sorry if I said anything that might be stupid, I might have mistaken...